Becky's New Haircut

Becky's New Haircut, originally uploaded by carlcmc.

Taken with a Nikon D80.

* Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320) [+]
* Aperture: f/2.8 [+]
* Focal Length: 85 mm [+]
* ISO Speed: 125 [+]

Strobist info: Clamshell lighting - 43" Umbrella above and slightly camera right. SB-800 into umbrella at M 1/2 triggered via Nikon CLS/AWS. 2x3' white poster board below umbrella with a gap for me to shoot through. 3x7' white Styrofoam reflector camera left for side fill to the face. SB-600 at M 1/16 on tripod at 3 o'clock location (camera right) pointed at hair for hair light. Triggered via Nikon CLS/AWS.

Becky's hair was the longest it had been in the last 12 years of our marriage. She decided to have it cut. She had it layered and thinned. It looks cute on her. Of course, her hair is naturally curly so she has to use a straight iron to have this look. We tried various poses: full on, 2/3 view, 3/4 view, headshot only, glance over the shoulder etc. This view is one I decided upload first. She has a nice smile.

First step of editing in Adobe Lightroom. Then edited with Portrait Proffessional. Reimported into Lightroom and then edited in Adobe Photoshop for a Gaussian blur layer. Reimport into Adobe Lightroom and Vignette applied.